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[–] [email protected] 24 points 17 hours ago

Retirement?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

Nindendo games? Ew. I was thinking dungeons and dragons

[–] [email protected] 26 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Well, hopefully those wealthy millennials will enjoy their distractions, homes, and retirement while the rest of us are dropped into the industrial grinders they use to reclaim the nutrients from our bodies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Come on now, you're making soylent green sound so industrial and devoid of feeling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks, and become one with all the people. Chairman Sheng-ji Yang

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Jim sucks and is an office bully.

We're watching Futurama, fellow olds.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Dwight is literally a fascist and usually only falls for Jim's pranks because of his fascism

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

Two things can be true at the same time!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Extra reason to Futurama.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I had the full run of the The Office on video. I had video editing software. I had it all planned out, how I was going to edit out 90% the Jim scenes from The Office, so I could play the whole thing on loop without intro or outro or the worst parts of the last two seasons.

Then I stared in the mirror for a long time and I was like: wtf am I doing with my life? And I haven't watched The Office since.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

fuckin screencapped

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Futurama has good science and absurdists jokes, but there is a LOT on Futurama that has not aged well at all, especially from a gender and sexuality standpoint.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

This conversation here is what the retired millennials are going to be doing, incapable of choice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Perfect! We can do discourse!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Elder fight clubs where we all beat up the MAGA millennials.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

To be fair basically every futurama character (except maybe Fry) is a bully

But I love watching it for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Kif is a bully?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I thought about this, but arthritis is a thing sadly. It's probably fine for non action games, but forget about playing smash

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

The older I get (40's now), the more I think about how I probably won't be able to fully enjoy video games like I thought i would. My vision which was always perfect is starting to show issues already, whenever I pick up a game I almost always nod off or fall asleep within an hour or 2 and almost nothing prevents it. My hands will sometimes lose sensation and I have to drop my hand down and stretch it to regain feeling... I feel like I'll be like that guy in the twilight zone who outlived everyone and was finally able to read all the books he ever wanted but then immediately stepped on his glasses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Yeah smash destroys the hands of 30 years olds in the scene.

What I'm looking forward to in retirement is finally cracking into games like Dwarf Fortress, Factorio, and Caves of Qud

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Fine, hearts of iron; all the survivors will be weird esoteric fascists by then anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Now you mention it, I would like to die taking some fascists with me, rather than from some suck ass old age pathology. Now I have way too much to loose, but in my old age, I'm going to be dead anyways, so why not. Maybe we see a rise in Luigis

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Oh sweet summer child... There isn't going to be many elderly millennials. Most of us will die off from our fifth "once in a generation" financial crisis, WW3, or the collapse of the environment. Hopefully the younger generations use our bones to build a better society.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago

Right?! I don't know any millennial whose retirement plan isn't just hitting a certain age and killing ourselves.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

On top of the fact that you need to have saved money to pay to live in a retirement home.

Are... Are there people that sort of really hope to just go from their patents' basement to a retirement home?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well if they bothered to submit those patents instead of leaving them in the basement then they might be able to live in a retirement home

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How many of us are still in our parents' basements? I'm nearly 40, struggling through our 20s was one thing but by now...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno. Depends on the acceptability of calling it a "multi - generational household" because Boomers locked up to much wealth and now have to live with the consequences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

I should change my name to "The Consequences" since I live with my boomer parents

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A major problem is that the demographics for Millennial retirement are a lot worse than for Boomers. Boomers at least had a decent number of millennials to help support them in retirement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

Oh my God not this birthrate bullshit.

Birthrates aren't down by much globally. Just learn a language and don't be a piece of shit to the rest of the world.

Maybe rationalize labor practices and add some automation while you're at it.

What's really gonna stop us retiring is climate change

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hopefully the younger generations use our bones to build a better society.

Knowing people, they'll use them to bash each other in the face, more likely...

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's extremely unlikely that social security will still exist by the time we're old enough to retire, so retirement will be yet another thing reserved for the rich.

Unless you live in a civilized country (not the US) in which case enjoy your retirement you lucky bastard.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I just hope that the current crisis in the US is a hallmark of the downfall of American capitalism and that the status quo can change long term. Remains to be seen if that’d be good or bad, though.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

We have a collection of millennials and Gen z at our retirement home as staff. (Ofc)

We joke about this but it is put in place by us saying we'd also have to be picking up shifts to even live there. It would have to be a sort of inmates running the asylum situation because we're all working til we're in the ground.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago

Nah, screw the office. Make it scrubs instead.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Maybe The Elder Scrolls 7 or Grand Theft Auto 7 will be out by the time I retire. Probably not. Weird that both those games have their 6th installments coming out next.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And again everyone forgot about GenX, just the way we like it 😆

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

"Meh."

My Gen Z cousin had zero respect for me til they PvP'd me on an old-school Street Fighter arcade machine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Zoomers dabbing in their retirement homes whilst their cloned grandkids look on in cringed puzzlement

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Finally I can max out my Runescape character!
*Logs in to Jagex, sees a blank screen*
No... it's not fair..... there was time now...!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

MTX so crazy in RS now (RS3) that you’ll likely have to pay to move every click by then

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Millennials last 'fuck you' by the universe - longevity.

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